With Congress home for the holidays, the White House is dispatching senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and press secretary Robert Gibbs to this Sunday’s television talk shows to trumpet the Obama administration’s string of year-end congressional victories and preview its agenda for the new year.

Jarrett is on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and Gibbs on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is also on CNN a day after the one-year anniversary of the attempted airline bombing in the skies near Detroit last Christmas Day. She’ll discuss homeland security and the war against terrorism, along with retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, and retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell, the former national intelligence director.

On ABC, “This Week” airs a special on the growing problems with veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including an interview with Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff.

CBS’s “Face the Nation” has a cadre of CBS Washington correspondents — Chip Reid, Lara Logan, David Martin, Nancy Cordes and Sharyl Attkisson — to recap the politics and other big news of the year and peek ahead to the new year and beyond.

And on Fox, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will do the same on “Fox News Sunday.”

C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” has Gentry Collins, the former political director of the Republican National Committee who’s challenging Chairman Michael Steele in this January’s RNC balloting.

Readers' Comments (5)

How about the fact that HER department is now punishing an airline pilot for exposing the lax security measures at airports?

Homeland Security is stuck on STUPID.

Valerie Jarrett is a known marxist but usually keeps a low profile as Obamas consigliere.

She said back when the Porkulus was passed the following,

"The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure."

Did it ? ....NO.....It put money into Universities pay and pensions plus.

On hiring Van Jones

We have been watching him since San Francisco and wanted to "recruit him"

and is a communist..

Valerie is Dangerous to America embedding personal throughout the Nation, policy, and through REGULATIONS.

Less and less do I finish watching the Sunday Talking Heads. They seem to be chasing their tails! The speechifying is predictable and boring. When did McConnell or Boehner ever NOT bash President Obama? When did D. Axelrod NOT explain ad nauseum President Obama's rationale?

A good book, or weather permitting, going outside and petting the dogs is much more preferable.

At a black tie event over the weekend, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett mistook the vice chief of staff of the Army for a waiter and asked him to get her a drink.

Does the fact that a Senior White House official can’t pick out a senior military officer in a line up of hotel doormen really surprise anyone? Wonder if someone on Meet the Press will ask her about it?

With the departure of National Security Advisor General James Jones several months ago, NO ONE in the West Wing has ever donned a uniform in defense of this nation which makes Obama's truly a "Vet-less Administration." Even the people who were of Prime Draft age during Vietnam like VP Joe "5-Deferment" Biden (like Dick Cheney to be fair), former acting Chief of Staff Pete Rouse and his replacement William Daley appear to have done everything short of maiming themselves (probably didn’t have the guts) to dodge the VN Draft. By comparison, the present White House crowd makes “George W" look like a war hero! (For the record, Bush flying antique Air Guard Convair F-102s was probably in more danger than I was during an extended CIB-earning tour in Vietnam!).

Active military service was a certainty for any male born between 1940-49 unless morally, mentally or medically unfit, or they took some overt action to "dodge" the draft so when these guys evaded, someone else, probably less educated or advantaged and definitely less eligible, served in his place.

I suspect eventually as his reelection nears, for survival President Obama will be forced to hire at least a few Vets to help prevent him from repeating some of those early Administration boneheaded blunders like trying to bill veterans’ private insurance for combat disabilities or allowing his DHS Secretary to accuse Vet of being potential Terrorists -- Ray Charles could have seen what the public reaction was going to be to these preposterous utterances but the Presidents “Vet-less” inner circle allowed it anyway. Including a Vet in his decision circle could have pointed out the obvious and avoided some embarrassment.

All Americans should encourage President Obama to add a little “diversity” to his administration and set an example for the rest of the country by hiring a few Vets. It might even have the serendipitous effect of lowering the Veteran unemployment rate.